Jim McGuffin

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Remember Jim McGuffin with the weather?  A Word a Day,
put out by Anu Garg just featured the word McGuffin.
I wasn't aware of the meaning of the word and perhaps
others aren't either.  

He writes:
"McGuffin (muh-GUF-in) noun, also MacGuffin

   A device that helps propel the plot in a story but is of little importance in itself.

[Coined by film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980).]

A McGuffin could be a person, an object, or an event that characters of a story are interested in but that, intrinsically, if of little concern."

I wonder if that means that Ted, the newscaster IS of
concern, if McGuffin is NOT.  Ted Tonks? anyone?

Laura Walsh   LWalshETAL at aol.com